Changes between NTL 5.3 and 5.3.1
* Fixed a bug affecting the BuildIrred routines for ZZ_pEX and
zz_pEX.
Changes between NTL 5.2 and 5.3
* Minimized and isolated constructs that do not adhere to C/C++
standards, and added flags NTL_CLEAN_INT and NTL_CLEAN_PTR which
force stricter compliance with these standards.
* Added functions IsWhiteSpace, CharToIntVal, and IntValToChar to
the tools module.
* Added methods allocated, position1 to generic vector classes.
* Added method allocated to the class vec_GF2.
* Added conversion routines from unsigned int/long to int, long,
float, and double.
* Added routines AddPrec, SubPrec, etc., to the RR module, and
declared the practice of directly assigning to the variable
RR::prec obsolete.
* Fixed a number of minor bugs.
Changes between NTL 5.1a and 5.2
* Implemented Mark van Hoeij's new algorithm for factorining
polynomials with rational coefficients. This new algorithm is much
more efficient than the previous algorithm used by NTL, and is the
default (one can switch back to the old algorithm with a run-time
switch).
* Added routines LLL_plus that are just like the all-integer LLL
routines, except that they return the exact values of the squared
lengths of the Gramm-Schmidt basis vectors. This is useful in
implementing van Hoeij's algorithm.
* Made a small change to quad_float.c to make it compile under gcc
version 3.0 without errors. This is the one place in NTL where I
resort to just a little assmebly code (but only on x86/Linux
platforms), and wouldn't you know it, this is the one place where
gcc 3.0 had problems.
* Made a small change to the procedure for generating a
distribution, so that now all files in the "tar" file comprising
the distribution come without any annoyingly excessive access
control restrictions.
* Changed the version numbering scheme so that it is now closer to
"standard practice". This is version "5.2". Any small bug fixes to
this version will be named "5.2.1", "5.2.2", etc. Also, macros are
now defined so that the numerical components of the version number
are available to the programmer.
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